Essential Reading

for Every 7th Grader

1. After The First Death by Robert Cormier
2. Always Running by Luis Rodriguez
3. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
4. Beloved by Toni Morrison
5. The Cay by Theodore Taylor
6. Chicken Soup for the Teen Soul: 101 Stories of Life, Love, and Learning by Jack Canfield and others
7. The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
8. Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
9. Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
10. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
11. Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
12. Hiroshima by Laurence Yep
13. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
14. Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
15. A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
16. Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
17. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
18. The Miracle Worker by William Gibson
19. My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
20. The Pearl by Joun Steinbeck
21. The Pigman by Paul Zindel
22. The Red Badge of Courage and Four Stories by Stephen Crane
23. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
24. A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
25. The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner